[buug] Hardware heartburn

[Patrick Soltani]

Hi,
I have run into this with Dell machines.  When I did a "lsmod" it listed the loaded usb-ohci module and that confused me even more. Upon further investigation, aka fiddling with BIOS setting, and disabling the usb in the BIOS, the problem disappeared and the module loaded without any errors or problems.  I am using AS2.1, kernel 2.4.9-e.3smp however.

This could be different on Compaq, but worth the try.

Regards,
Patrick Soltani.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: buug-admin at weak.org [mailto:buug-admin at weak.org]On 
> Behalf Of Bill
> Honeycutt
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:37 PM
> To: buug at weak.org
> Subject: [buug] Hardware heartburn
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I realize that BUUG isn't an appropriate forum for the 
> question I need 
> to ask, but maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> Today, out of the blue, I got the following in messages:
> 
>     kernel: usb-ohci.c: OHCI Unrecoverable Error, controller 
> usb-00:0f.2 
> disabled
> 
> ...after which the server quit responding and a number of bleary eyed 
> programmers started wandering up to my desk.
> 
> I snooped around with lspci -v and found out this:
> 
> 00:0f.2 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro 
> Chipset USB 
> (rev 12) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>          Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB
>          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 25
>          Memory at db800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>          Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 1
> 
> This was a second hand machine, always somewhat suspect, but 
> it does a 
> fairly decent job, doesn't need to be 24x7, so I keep it alive.
> 
> Could I be looking at signs of a flakey controller chip?  
> Could someone 
> have done something stupid and triggered this message?
> 
> Any words of wisdom, speculation or even wisecracks would be 
> appreciated.
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